A Flemish Baroque painting reanimates Genesis 16–21 and helps us reflect on trust, covenant and the consequences of human ...

The patriarchs in the Bible were the fathers of the nation of Israel: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Through these three men, the ...

The latter history begins with the patriarch Abram (Abraham). Judaism, Christianity and Islam all acknowledge Abraham as “the man of faith” and claim him as their own. It’s why, for example ...

Abraham was first known as Abram but when he followed God, he had his name changed. He lived with his family in Ur, believed to be in modern day Iraq. At that time, it is likely that the people of ...

very much, and I will make you into nations.... This is when God changed Abram’s name to Abraham meaning ‘father of many nations’.